Lyon. [1780]. Engraving with letterpress text beneath, the whole measuring 9 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches. Mounted at corners to modern heavy paper. Lightly soiled. Trimmed a bit close at top edge, but not into image. Very good. Engraving with printed enumerated text beneath in French and Dutch, satirizing England's... More

[Philadelphia. ca. 1850]. Broadsheet, 19 3/4 x 9 inches. Lightly tanned, trimmed close at bottom, with the loss of a line of text (and possibly the imprint). A few small tears at edges, left edge reinforced with tissue. Good plus. Broadsheet, printed on both sides, advertising the latest and greatest... More

Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1846. 94pp. including 5pp. of publisher's advertisements, plus engraved frontis. and titlepage after George Cruikshank. Dbd. 12mo. Small bookseller's stamp in lower margin of engraved titlepage. Foxed, else very good. First American edition of the first part of the brilliant legal satire by Gilbert Abbott à... More

Danbury. [1799]. 36pp., including a woodcut on the second page. Stitched. Untrimmed. Title and last pages soiled, dampstain on top left corner of several leaves; not affecting text. Text tanned. Good. An early Connecticut almanac with many anecdotes and joke. Notable is an anecdote about Voltaire's punishment for writing an... More

London: H. Such, Printed and Publisher, [nd, but ca. 1850]. Single sheet, about 4 x 9 1/2 inches. Overall condtion is very good. Rather incongruous woodcut vignette of a Chinese man with pagoda and ship in the background. British song sheet with black minstrel song: "A Boatman leads a fearful... More

London. 1738. 7pp. Woodcut frontispiece. Folio. Later wrappers. Minor tears at folds of leaves, else good. First edition, first issue. An extremely attractive 18th century British ballad critical of Walpole's dealing with Spain. The full-page woodcut shows the Spanish king pulling the tale of the British lion, which is about... More

London. March 24, 1784. Engraving with contemporary hand-coloring, 9 x 11 1/2 inches. Minor soiling. Color bright and fresh. Very good. A satire on William Pitt's triumph over chief rival Charles James Fox in getting the New India Bill passed; the India Act of 1784 brought control of the East... More

London. 1740. Engraving with hand-coloring, measuring 14 x 8 3/4 inches. Minor soiling. Color quite bright and fresh. Very good. A satire against French Cardinal Fleury, Chief Minister to Louis XV, published during the frenzy of celebrations over Admiral Vernon's victory over the Spanish at the Battle of Porto Bello... More

New York. 1865. 231pp. plus plates and 8pp. of ads. Frontis. Original cloth, rubbed. Good. One of a series of satirical books written by Browne under the pseudonym of Artemus Ward, illustrated by Mullen. Includes several chapters concerning the Mormons, as well as an account of a trip to California... More

London. 1853. Two volumes. xxi,[1],313pp. plus folding table; viii,328pp. Half title and color frontispiece in first volume. Original gilt cloth. Extremities rubbed, spines darkened, neat bookplate in each volume. Very good. Alfred Bunn was a theatrical manager who, according to the DNB, "is best remembered on account of his literary..... More

London. 1818. [4],viii,186pp. plus [4]pp. advertisements. Original plain boards, spine split, covers detached. Untrimmed. Titlepage with minor tears to upper region, affecting "A" in title. Else generally quite nice internally. First London edition of part one only of Cobbett's humorous three part account of travel in the United States. Includes... More

London. 1822. Three parts bound in one volume. [2],vi,360pp. 12mo. Contemporary blue boards. Spine rather shaky, some flecking and wear to extremities. Scattered foxing. Else good. Lacks the map. Styled "Third Edition" on the titlepage of A YEAR'S RESIDENCE..., bound with a later printing of THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE (but lacking... More

Boston: Published by Charles Ellms, [1835]. 48pp., including numerous illustrations. Stitched. Tanning, light foxing. Very good. Untrimmed and partially unopened. A collection of numerous witticisms, anecdotes, and a comical tale taking place in London. Very heavily illustrated with woodcuts of a humorous nature.More

Hartford: George W. Kappel, 1825. [4],208pp. Contemporary three quarter red roan and boards, gilt- stamped spine. Rubbed, head of spine repaired. Scattered foxing. Very good. A complete run of this scarce Hartford magazine, consisting of twenty-six issues published from Feb. 19 to Oct. 29, 1825. Each issue is comprised of... More

Nashville: Ben Harding, [ 1838]. 36pp. including twenty woodcut illustrations (twelve full-page). Contemporary plain brown wrappers, stitched. Short closed tear in gutters and fore-edge of first few and last few leaves, minor edge loss to last leaf, some toning. Overall, a very good, unsophisticated copy. "It was the Crockett Almanacks... More

Nashville: Published by Ben Harding, [ 1839]. 33,[3]pp. including illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers, string-tied. Light dust soiling to wrappers, slightly worn at edges. Scattered foxing. A very good copy. Volume 2, No. 2 of the Crockett almanacs, with the usual stories of mayhem and heroism in the West, graphically illustrated... More